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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1934.122
People
Winslow Homer, American (Boston, MA 1836 - 1910 Prouts Neck, ME)
Title
Two Girls on a Cliff
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1883
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306723

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gray wash and white gouache over graphite and charcoal on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
54.4 x 37.8 cm (21 7/16 x 14 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • exhibition label: removed from old mount? now in curatorial file, paper, printed and typed: [from "Winslow Homer in Monochrome" exhibition] No. 66
  • exhibition label: removed from old mount? now in curatorial file, paper, printed and typed: [from special Homer loan exhibition] S.E. no. 2943.5
  • exhibition label: removed from old mount? now in curatorial file, paper, printed and typed

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Mariana Griswold van Rensselaer, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1934

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Mariana G. Van Rensselaer
Accession Year
1934
Object Number
1934.122
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer, "An American Artist in England", The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (November 1883), vol. 27 (n.s. vol. 5), pp. 13-21, ill. p. 16
  • Winslow Homer: Water Colors, Prints and Drawings, exh. cat., Addison Gallery of American Art (Andover, MA, 1936), pg. 30, repro.
  • Forbes Watson, Winslow Homer, Crown Publishers Inc. (New York, 1942), pg. 94, repro.
  • Winslow Homer: A Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1959), cat. 160
  • Philip C. Beam, Winslow Homer, McGraw-Hill (New York, 1975), cover
  • Gordon Hendricks, The Life and Work of Winslow Homer, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1979), CL-274, p. 298
  • Abigail Booth Gerdts, Winslow Homer in Monochrome, exh. cat., Knoedler & Co. Inc. (New York, NY, 1986), reproduced in b/w, p. 50, no. 66
  • Tony Knipe, ed., Winslow Homer: All the Cullercoats Pictures, exh. cat., Northern Centre for Contemporary Art (Sunderland, UK, 1988), pg. 108
  • Tony Harrison, Winslow Homer in Cullercoats, Station Press (Port Seton, UK, 1995), pp. 65, 73
  • Tony Harrison, Winslow Homer in England, Hornby Editions (Ocean Park, ME, 2004), pg. 67, repro.
  • Lloyd Goodrich and Abigail Booth Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer, Spanierman Gallery (New York, 2005-2014), vol. 4.2, p. 250, no. 1196, repr. p. 250
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 159-60, cat. 122, ill. p. 160

Exhibition History

  • Winslow Homer: Water Colors, Prints and Drawings, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, 09/24/1936 - 10/25/1936; Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, 10/31/1936 - 11/30/1936; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, 01/30/1937 - 02/28/1937
  • [Winslow Homer exhibition], Symphony Hall, Boston, 01/01/1937 - 12/31/1937
  • Unidentified Exhibition, University of Redlands, 1941, University of Redlands, Redlands, 01/25/1941 - 02/27/1941
  • Watercolors by Winslow Homer, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/09/1944 - 11/01/1944
  • Exhibition of Water Colors: Homer, Sargent, Marin, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, 04/18/1947 - 06/11/1947
  • Water Colors, Drawings, and Wood Engravings by Winslow Homer from the Collections of Eight East Coast Museums, Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, 02/03/1952 - 02/24/1952
  • The Art of Winslow Homer, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, 11/01/1954 - 11/21/1954; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, 12/01/1954 - 12/21/1954
  • American Paintings from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Symphony Hall, Boston, 02/21/1958 - 03/15/1958
  • Winslow Homer: A Retrospective Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 03/26/1959 - 05/03/1959
  • Winslow Homer in Monochrome, Knoedler & Co. Inc., New York, 12/12/1986 - 01/10/1987

Verification Level

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